[Paddlewise] Cascadia Marine Trail

A few months back I received the new Cacadia Marine Trail Guidebook from the 
Washington Water Trails Assn. It's a clear improvement on previous guides. 
Some of the trailheads referred to are hard (maybe impossible) to find on   a map 
in the book, but other than that, this guide seems perfect, and I am inspired 
to drive up to Puget Sound in August and try it out.

Are there any guides to hotels/motels/guest houses on Puget Sound that are 
accessible by kayak? When my partner and I paddled the Maine coast a few years 
back, we used the Maine Island Trail Assn's guidebook and the extremely 
valuable "Hot Showers of Maine," a paperback that had minimaps of each of the 
lodgings we wight want to use, along with all the data for contacting them for 
reservations, etc.   Hot Showers of Maine allowed us to reduce our impact on the 
Maine Islands by checking into a beach hotel every other day or so ( we could 
also empty and clean our toilet tupperware). Plus, a hot shower, a nice meal we 
didn't have to cook ourselves, occasional cable TV and clean sheets, made it 
easy to stretch the paddle out to three weeks!

I can see from the Cascadia guide that there are obvious portions of the 
trail where we will have to find a place to stay ( such as in Tacoma, between 
Kopachuck and Lisabeula, in Seattle, between Fay Bainbridge and Meadowdale, and 
beween Meadowdale and Oak Bay County Park). If there is a "Hot Showers of Puget 
Sound" guide, I would be grateful to know about it. 

If such a guide does not exist, does anybody have any ideas for any take outs 
with lodging to bridge these three gaps referred to above?

douglas in sf



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